The K Desktop Environment

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1. Introduction

KiKbd is designed to help type national symbols different from the default Latin symbols under X11.

KiKbd implements keyboard layout support for national character sets other than the default Latin-1. Instead of relying on the classic method which uses X keyboard maps and modifier keys or, since X11R6.1 came out, XKB map files and rules, KiKbd can remember more then one keyboard map and can switch to any one desired in dynamic fashion.

KiKbd uses the xmodmap method to setup national keyboard maps for X11 applications, but can handle dynamic switching between the list of selected maps. This means is can support more than one language at a time.

In addition to this, KiKbd can also maintain different keyboard maps for different windows or applications (using Window or Class input styles respectively).

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